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As a third-generation primary care doctor, Pamela Harrop, M.D.’83, understands how important it is to connect with patients in the community, no matter what it takes to reach them. Her work with uninsured and marginalized populations began in 1986 through the Traveler’s Aide free medical van, and continues in her home state of Rhode Island through her position as volunteer Associate Medical Director of Clinica Esperanza, a free clinic in Providence catering to uninsured adults, many of whom are undocumented citizens. At the Larner College of Medicine, she’s helping students interested in joining the ranks of primary care physicians defray the costs of their medical education through a $50,000 scholarship fund. The Harrop Family Scholarship for Primary Care, which received a $25,000 match from the UVM Medical Alumni Association, honors the legacy of her grandfather, father, and uncle, all of whom practiced medicine out of the family’s homestead in Rhode Island.

Harrop, an associate clinical professor of medicine at the Warren Alpert School of Medicine at Brown University and president and chief medical officer of Medical Associates of Rhode Island, has been widely recognized for her own contributions to the field. In 2016, the Rhode Island Medical Women’s Association honored her as Woman of the Year. And this year, she received the Service to Medicine and the Community Award from the UVM Medical Alumni Association after being nominated by fellow alum and Rhode Island physician Frances Conklin, M.D.’51, who noted her deep devotion to her patients and commitment to health care that’s accessible to all.

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See architects’ renderings, a video, and other information about the College’s proposed new biomedical research complex.

Match Day 2018 was an important day for the Class of 2018. See videos and photos that augment the Match List that appears on page 9.

See a video of the “3 Peaks in 4 Weeks” challenge that led Dean Rick Morin to trek into the high country to raise funds for today’s students.

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The Summit ViewAs his eleven-year tenure nears its end, Dean Rick Morin reflects on the high points of his time guiding the Larner College of Medicine, and looks at the landscape ahead.

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The Tunbridge DocsOne small town, four lives in medicine.

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Inventing the WheelVermonters craft the “hub and spoke” — the first effective clinical approach to treating widespread opioid addiction.

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I think back to the beginning, the last session of my last interview for this position. One of the faculty in the Sullivan Classroom asked me why I wanted to be the Dean of this College of Medicine. I responded that it certainly was not the resources, but it was the quality of the faculty that attracted me. Now, at the other end of this stage of my career, I think I was nearly half right. After I arrived, I quickly realized that it is the people, but it is all of the people — faculty, staff, students, and alumni — who are the foundation of the College.

It took me a little longer to realize that the College had another enormous asset, one that visitors, including our accrediting body, spontaneously remarked on: the culture of cooperation and collaboration that exists across our faculty, staff, students, and administration. I would add that creativity, personal responsibility, and just plain hard work are attributes of our culture as well. It is our people and our culture that have made us successful. Together, you have, in effect, created the other necessary resources.

Through creativity and collaboration, our educators, students, and staff have developed a medical education that is nationally and internationally recognized as leading the field, an education that is second to none and, with the support of Dr. Larner and many others, arguably ready to go one step higher.

Our clinical faculty, staff, and administrators have cooperated and collaborated with the hospital and University administration to create a University of Vermont Medical Center, and our ties to that institution have been greatly strengthened.

Through creativity, self-reliance, and hard work, our faculty and laboratory staff weathered a devastating storm in federal research funding. They preserved the excellence of their work and now are building on that quality to expand the work. Together, we are planning a $90 million investment in modern research space. Through collaboration between the College administration, the University of Vermont Health Network Faculty Practice, and our alumni, we have put together most of the funding needed to get the new building formally approved and launched by the UVM Board of Trustees.

Contributions by the alumni for the building should put our philanthropy for the Move Mountains campaign over the $200 million mark many months before it ends next May. We have by far the most dedicated alumni any medical school could wish to have. Throughout my years as dean, our alumni have consistently ranked among the highest for participation in philanthropy to their medical alma mater. They hold dear the place where their medical career began, and it shows. It is fitting that ours is the first medical school in the nation named for one of its alumni.

So I am proud of the accomplishments we have achieved for our College. And I believe we have built the foundation for an even brighter future. I am truly grateful for having had the opportunity to serve as Dean of your College. It has been the capstone of my career. Thank you.

FREDERICK C. MORIN III, M.D.

Dean, The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont

In late May we celebrated Commencement for our medical students. Commencement recognizes the conclusion of our students’ education here and the beginning of the next stage of their careers. I felt the poignancy of that ceremony, the joy tempered by sadness. And I feel an even sharper poignancy today, as I prepare for the conclusion of my leadership of our College.

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Kirkpatrick Appointed Chair of Microbiology and Molecular GeneticsDean Rick Morin, M.D., and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Dean Thomas Vogelmann, Ph.D., have appointed Beth Kirkpatrick, M.D., as chair of the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics (MMG) at the Larner College of Medicine and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Kirkpatrick’s appointment became effective in March, when founding chair and University Distinguished Professor Susan Wallace, Ph.D., stepped down. A nationally and internationally recognized physician-scientist and specialist in infectious diseases, translational immunology, and global vaccine development, Kirkpatrick launched the Vaccine Testing Center (VTC) at UVM in 2001. Under her leadership, the VTC has grown to assume a prominent international role in the development and evaluation of vaccines for globally-important infectious diseases such as dengue, cholera, rotavirus, and other pathogens. The VTC, which performs both clinical and laboratory-based research in vaccines and human immunity, has garnered support from

the National Institutes of Health, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the U.S. Department of Defense, and other funders. VTC work has a major positive impact on the health of millions of people around the globe, particularly in the developing world. A graduate of Albany Medical College, Kirkpatrick completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester, and an infectious disease fellowship at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She joined the UVM faculty in 1999 as an assistant professor in the Division of Infectious Disease in the Department of Medicine. She was promoted to tenured professor in 2013. In addition, she served as interim associate dean for clinical research at the Larner College of Medicine from 2014 to 2016. Her many awards and honors include: the 2017 UVM Health Network Medical Group Senior Researcher of the Year award; election as a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation; and receipt of the 2012 Bailey K. Ashford Medal from the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. She was a 2010 Professor in Residence at the Infectious Disease Institute at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. Kirkpatrick will retain leadership of the VTC and will continue to see patients in her role as an infectious disease specialist at the UVM Medical Center.

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Architect’s sketch of the proposed new research complex.

Preliminary work has begun at UVM to create a biomedical research complex that will include a new building and a rehabilitated Given Building. These spaces will accommodate faculty and staff from both the Larner College of Medicine and the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Psychological Science. The proposed location for the new building is adjacent to the Health Sciences Research Facility (HSRF). Larner College of Medicine Dean Rick Morin, M.D., and College of Arts and Sciences Dean William Falls, Ph.D., previewed building plans in the fall and spring to

ENSURING THE FUTURE OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT UVMthe UVM Board of Trustees and, in a special town hall meeting with UVM faculty, staff, and students. Groundbreaking is tentatively scheduled for November 2019.

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Training New Docs for 21st Century MedicineWhen third-year medical students at the Larner College of Medicine attend orientation for their pediatrics clerkship, they don’t sit and listen as an administrator explains what they can expect and how their grades are calculated. Instead, they read a syllabus addressing those questions before they arrive. At that point, they take a quiz, followed by a comparison of their answers as a group. Then, the group gets into a conversation about clerkship objectives, the importance of personal and group reflection, and other topics like the tenets of family-centered care. “It’s not just a quiz and we go on,” explains William Raszka, M.D., UVM pediatrics professor and director of the pediatrics clerkship. “We use it to lead to a broader discussion, because we want them to engage with the material.” Orientation sets the stage for what’s to come, as the pediatrics clerkship incorporates active learning throughout. It is the first Larner College clerkship to feature an all-active regimen. By 2019, the college plans to shift the entire Vermont Integrated Curriculum to active learning methods. By incorporating small group discussion, flipped classroom exercises, simulation, and other teaching methods, not only do students apply the medical knowledge they’re learning, they also practice how to work in a team and effectively communicate. The seven-week clerkship focuses on hands-on experience through rotations in pediatric primary care practices, children’s hospital units, critical care, and pediatric specialties. It also

includes classroom sessions in areas such as fever and rashes, vaccines, abdominal complaints, and child abuse. With active learning, those sessions start before the students get to the classroom. They receive reading materials, narrated PowerPoint presentations and videos that they review in advance, then come to class and take a “readiness” quiz. After the quiz, they discuss their answers, and an instructor makes sure to “close the gap,” as Raszka puts it. “We want the students to be very comfortable saying, ‘I don’t understand. I don’t know why,’ ” he says. “That way, everyone has a level of knowledge and how to apply it.” A child with a rash, for example, could have scarlet fever, toxic shock syndrome or Kawasaki disease. Students must not only explain their diagnosis but their reasons for choosing it. In the final step of active learning, students put the information they learned to real-life case studies. The pediatrics clerkship includes locations: UVM Medical Center; UVM Health Network affiliate sites in

Vermont and New York; Western Connecticut Health Network in Norwalk, Conn.; and St. Mary’s Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. Previously, all 17 students gathered — either in person or via Zoom video conference — at UVM’s Burlington campus for the group sessions. Now, the clerkship uses a “distributed model,” keeping students at their own sites for most active learning sessions. Research shows that active learning improves student engagement, knowledge retention and, ultimately, test scores. Any student today can call up a description of meningitis symptoms on a smartphone, Raszka says. To identify meningitis as the cause of, say, a child’s altered mental status — rather than trauma, vasculitis or seizures—requires more than recitation of facts. “We’re trying to foster, in a safe environment, application,” Raszka says. “It’s a way to apply the knowledge you have.”

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LOUNSBURY APPOINTED FOUNDATIONS DIRECTORKaren Lounsbury, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology, has been appointed director of Foundations in the Office of Medical Student Education. She succeeds Paula Tracy, Ph.D., who stepped down after six years in the position. Lounsbury will lead and manage the Foundations Level of the Vermont Integrated Curriculum, supporting course directors, the use of active learning, ensuring best practices and facilitating student engagement in the curriculum. She will also continue as director of the Masters in Medical Science Graduate Program.

KULAGA APPOINTED ASSISTANT DEAN FOR STUDENTS AT CONNECTICUT CAMPUSEllen Kulaga, M.D., has been appointed assistant dean for students at the Larner College of Medicine’s Connecticut campus at Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN). Kulaga began serving in this new role in January. She is a clinical assistant professor of medicine at UVM and reports to Jonathan Rosen, M.D., associate dean for undergraduate medical education at the Connecticut campus. Kulaga’s responsibilities include advocating for, advising and evaluating the performance of Larner medical students at the Connecticut campus; policy compliance; strategic planning; and central educational management.

JANSSEN-HEININGER NAMED UNIVERSITY SCHOLARAmong the three new 2018–2019 University Scholars named by the UVM Graduate College this spring was Professor of Pathology Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D., an internationally recognized scientist in the field of redox biology, particularly as it applies to lung disease. University Scholar designation recognizes her as an outstanding member of the UVM faculty whose dedication, professionalism and talent has taken her to the top of her field. The University Scholars program recognizes distinguished UVM faculty members for sustained excellence in research, creative and scholarly activities. The Scholars are selected by a faculty panel based upon nominations submitted by UVM colleagues.

WONG NAMED ASSOCIATE VP FOR CLINICAL AFFAIRS FOR UVM HEALTH NETWORK MEDICAL GROUPCheung Wong, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has been named associate vice president for clinical affairs for the UVM Health Network Medical Group. In this role, Wong has primary responsibility for overseeing quality; developing strategies for value-based care and population health for UVMHN Medical Group specialty services in collaboration with OneCare Accountable Care Organization; and provides oversight of clinical programs for the UVMHN Medical Group.

GAGNON APPOINTED DIRECTOR OF FACILITIES ADMINISTRATION AND PROJECTSEric Gagnon, M.Ed., M.S.S., has been appointed director of facilities administration and projects in the Dean’s Office. Gagnon, who has been the administrator for the Department of Medicine at the College and UVM Medical Center since 2001, will provide leadership for direct administrative and operational activities, including oversight of physical assets, construction and renovation projects, and space management for the College. He succeeds Sue Ligon, who retired after serving the College for more than

24 years. Gagnon also helped launch the Department of Medicine’s SPARK-VT Program in 2012 and is currently co-chair of UVM’s SPARK-VT Program Steering Committee. He serves on the College’s Diversity & Inclusion Strategic Planning Committee, the Office of the Vice President for Research Entrepreneurship Forum, and the University Business Council Effort Reporting Subcommittee.

Karen Lounsbury, Ph.D.

Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D.

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GLOBAL HEALTH LEADERS, EDUCATORS, STUDENTS HONORED AT ANNUAL CELEBRATION EVENTSThe Global Health Program at the Larner College of Medicine and the Western Connecticut Health Network (WCHN) hosted “A Celebration of Global Health” at the College April 17 to 18. Guests from Russia and Zimbabwe joined WCHN and Larner leaders, faculty, staff and students for several events, including a Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in Global Health by Trefz Family Professor in Global Health Majid Sadigh, M.D., a poster session, and an exhibition of photographs and written reflections. Sadigh also presented Dean Rick Morin with a special thank you gift for his leadership and support of the Global Health Program.

Majid Sadigh, M.D., delivers the 2018 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture in Global Health.

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Bunker Scholars Set to Explore Medicine’s PossibilitiesThe late Robert B. Bunker, M.D., a Vermont native who spent four decades in practice as a military physician, made the extraordinary decision to help students at the Larner College of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth graduate debt-free through a scholarship that covers tuition, room, and board for the four years of medical school. Keenly aware of the financial commitment medical school requires, and inspired by the help he received when he attended medical school, he wanted to give deserving students the opportunity to follow their dream and explore the full range of opportunities for their practice. “He grew up in Vermont and spent his retirement years in New Hampshire,” says trustee John Kitchen. “That’s why he named UVM and Dartmouth.” Three students in the Larner College of Medicine Class of 2021 are the first to benefit from Bunker’s life-changing generosity. “The Bunker Scholarship has empowered me to focus on what I aspire to do rather than on how much it will cost to do it,” says Jessica Lyon ’21, one of the first three Bunker Scholarship recipients. “And more, it has completely opened my eyes to the world of possibilities medicine has laid out in front of me. The Bunker Scholarship has been nothing short of blessing, not only for my education but for my future as a whole.”

Haines Family Scholarship Benefits Students in NeedIn July of 1939, Gerald Haines ’42, M.D.’44, received a $75 scholarship for his first year of college. For a boy who grew up on the family dairy farm in Cabot before moving to Barre at the height of the Great Depression, it was no small opportunity. Gerald Haines took full advantage of his time at UVM, graduating in 1942 and earning his medical degree in 1944. He served in World War II as a transport surgeon and neuropsychiatrist before returning to the U.S. to practice neurosurgery in northeastern New York for three decades. When Gerald passed away in 2015, he left a generous bequest for the Larner College of Medicine. Inspired by their father’s commitment, Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., Dave Haines, Ph.D., and Steve Haines, M.D.’75, a neurosurgeon at the University of Minnesota Medical School, decided to contribute personal gifts and create the Haines Family Scholarship. This endowed fund honors Gerald’s legacy by helping deserving students attend medical school at UVM. Their hope is that the fund, which also received a $50,000 matching gift from the Medical Alumni Association, will “make a difference for a student deciding whether or not to matriculate,” creating new opportunities for students who aspire to become physicians.

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Lucey’s Life & Legacy Celebrated through Endowed Visiting ProfessorshipWhen UVM Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics Jerold Lucey, M.D., passed away on December 10, 2017, at the age of 91, former students and colleagues from across the generations remembered his gift for teaching, his patience and good humor, and his deep knowledge of pediatrics. Lucey’s widow, Ingela Lucey, as well as former students, friends and colleagues have come together to raise $300,000 for an endowed visiting professorship in neonatal medicine at UVM that promises to help foster the next generation of neonatal specialists. The professorship will bring leading edge researchers and clinicians to UVM to host a keynote talk and meet with faculty and students with an interest in the field. Memorial contributions in Dr. Lucey’s memory may be made by visiting: go.uvm.edu/lucey

Fourth-Year Students Benefit from Alum’s GenerosityJohn H. Healey, M.D.’78, wants to make sure Larner College of Medicine students getting ready for residency have ample opportunity to “think broadly” about the possibilities for training and practice without worrying about the costs associated with travel to residency interviews and electives. In honor of his 40th reunion this year, he committed $40,000 to help third- and fourth-year students meet these expenses through the John H. Healey, M.D.’78 Medical Student Travel Fund. The fund provides grants ranging from $1,000 to $2,000 to defray costs associated with interviews and visiting rotations for students with demonstrated financial need. A world-renowned surgical specialist in the treatment of bone and soft tissue tumors, Healey is the Stephen McDermott Chair in Surgery and Chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and a professor of orthopedic surgery at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.

Jerold Lucey, M.D., in the mid-1990s

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BONNEY APPOINTED TO 5-YEAR TERM ON NICHD BOARD OF SCIENTIFIC COUNSELORSElizabeth Bonney, M.D., M.P.H., professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences, has been appointed to a five-year term on the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Division of Intramural Research. Bonney, who also serves as director of research for her department and specializes in immune system function during pregnancy, joined the UVM faculty in 2002. She received a medical degree from Stanford University Medical School, completed a residency in obstetrics/gynecology at Harvard, a fellowship in bacteriology and immunology at the National Institutes of Health, and earned an M.P.H. degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is a Fellow of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

UVM JOINS HIGH-PROFILE REGENERATIVE MEDICINE CONSORTIUMThe University of Vermont has joined the Advanced Regenerative Manufacturing Institute (ARMI) through its BioFabUSA program. ARMI is a non-profit, federally sponsored consortium dedicated to making the large-scale manufacture of engineered tissues and tissue-related technologies practical, to benefit existing industries and grow new ones. Regenerative medicine translates fundamental knowledge in biology, chemistry and physics into materials, devices, systems and a variety of therapeutic strategies that augment, repair, replace or regenerate organs and tissues. While great strides have been made in research, practical, large scale manufacturing in regenerative medicine has lagged. “Regenerative medicine as a field is on the verge of transforming the treatment of disease and disability, as the research breakthroughs of the past decade move into the world of practical medicine,” said Richard Galbraith, M.D., Ph.D., vice president for research at UVM. “Our membership in ARMI/BioFabUSA both recognizes UVM as a leader in this rapidly emerging area and provides an opportunity for the university to advance even further.”

SHUKLA RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS HOW ASBESTOS CAUSES LUNG DISEASE MESOTHELIOMAAsbestos exposure is widely known to cause human disease, including the deadly cancer mesothelioma — although researchers aren’t sure why. While asbestos is inhaled into the lungs, mesothelioma develops in physically remote mesothelial cells. No successful methods exist for early detection of exposure to asbestos. New research published in The FASEB Journal by Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Arti Shukla, Ph.D., may have unlocked the first piece of this puzzle. Shukla’s findings suggest that cells in one region of the body are capable of sending messages to cells in a distant location, and can cause significant genetic changes. “These intriguing findings go a good ways toward explaining the conundrum of how a pulmonary irritant triggers distant effects,” said Thoru Pederson, Ph.D., editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal. “They also add to the burgeoning array of studies that link exosome-based communication to pathogenic events.”

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A CYBER APPROACH TO ACL REHAB: TOTH & SKALKA’S BME GRANT BREAKS NEW GROUNDTwo UVM researchers, Professor of Medicine Michael Toth, Ph.D., and Associate Professor of Computer Science Christian Skalka, Ph.D., are working to create a cyber-physical electrical stimulation system that acts as a bridge therapy for kneel surgery patients immediately post-injury and in the time between surgery and the start of physical therapy. Their innovation is a Bluetooth-enabled personal neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NEMS) device that collects detailed data about its usage in real-time and sends these data to a mobile phone app. On the other end of the data stream, a backend server hosts an automated compliance analysis algorithm that analyzes the data and sends the care provider and the patient either “in” or “out of compliance” messages. If successful, the device will be the first of its kind to provide real-time monitoring of at-home rehabilitation using NMES. Toth and Skalka were awarded one of two inaugural UVM Biomedical Engineering (BME) Pilot Research Program grants for their project.

Arti Shukla, Ph.D., and lab team members Maximilian MacPherson and Phillip Munson.

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M atch Day — the annual rite of passage that ignites a senior medical student’s future — took place on Friday, March 16, 2018. Beginning at noon EDT, medical students in the Larner College of Medicine’s Class of 2018 and soon-to-be-doctors from across the U.S.

and world learned which U.S. residency program they have been matched to for the next three to seven years. At the UVM, the celebration began at around 11:40 a.m., when members of the Class of 2018 processed down the hall of the Given building, following bagpiper H. James Wallace, M.D.’88, a medical alumnus and radiation oncologist, into the Health Science Research Facility’s Hoehl Gallery. A video livestream allowed off-site students, family and friends to participate in the event’s excitement. How does The Match work? The National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) uses a computerized mathematical algorithm to align the preferences of applicants with the preferences of program directors in order to produce the best possible outcome for filling training positions available at U.S. teaching hospitals. The NRMP said the 2018 Main Residency Match was the largest in the program’s 66-year history.

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Rachel Carlson UVM Medical CenterTimothy Flanagan Lahey ClinicIan Grant Brigham & Women’s HospitalTinh Huynh University of Texas Southwestern Medical SchoolChristina Litsakos UVM Medical CenterMelissa Rafferty University of Michigan Hospsital — Ann ArborKasra Sarabakhsh NYU School Of MedicineSiyeon Seong Virginia Mason Medical CenterNathaniel Sugiyama Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Apoorva Trivedi University of Massachusetts Medical School

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Matteen Hakim Hartford HospitalAlex Jacobson Brigham & Women’s HospitalY-Lan Khuong UVM Medical CenterXiaoyu Lu University of Maryland Medical Center

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David Leon Johns Hopkins Hospital

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Taylor Goller Carilion Clinic — Virginia Tech Carilion School of MedicineTimothy Henderson Advocate Health Care — Oak Lawn, Ill.Nicholas Kovacs Carilion Clinic — Virginia Tech Carilion School of MedicineAlexandra Miller University of Michigan Hospsital —

Ann ArborLindsay Miller Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown UniversityFran Riley Maimonides Medical Center —

Brooklyn, N.Y.Stefan Wheat University of Arizona College of Medicine at Tucson

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Grace Adamson Maine-Dartmouth Family MedicinePaul Baresel Penn State Hershey Medical CenterMichael Chung Rutgers-RW Johnson Medical SchoolKelley Collier University of Colorado School of Medicine — DenverSherilyn DeStefano University of Utah Affilliated HospitalsEmily Forbes-Mobus UVM Medical CenterMargaret Graham UVM Medical CenterMichael Ialeggio University of Rochester/ Strong MemorialAdrienne Jarvis UVM Medical CenterTalia Kostick Sutter Medical Center of Santa RosaSusannah Kricker Albany Medical CenterAlison Mercier Lancaster General HospitalMichael Ohkura UCLA Medical CenterKishan Patel St. Marys Medical Center SCL Health — Grand Junction, Col.Brett Powers Maine Medical CenterSaraga Reddy Kaiser Permanente — WashingtonAndrew Sheridan UVM Medical Center

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Ashley Deeb St. Elizabeths Medical Center — BostonMiles Grunvald Rush University Medical CenterRichard Mendez UVM Medical CenterSaurabh Patel Morristown Memorial Hospital — N.J.Adam Petchers Albany Medical CenterYazen Qumsiyeh UC San Francisco — FresnoAutumn Reilly UVM Medical CenterBrittany Rocque University of Rochester/ Strong MemorialBrianna Spencer Penn State Hershey Medical CenterSoraiya Thura George Washington UniversityBrian Till Thomas Jefferson University

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Kenyon Bolton UVM Medical CenterChristina Cahill Hospital of the University of

PennsylvaniaPatrick Cruden Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterEric Day UC San Francisco-FresnoGilana Finogenov Yale-New Haven HospitalLauren Haggerty UC San Diego Medical CenterTridu Huynh Scripps Clinic/Green HospitalPeter Hyson University of Colorado School of Medicine — DenverCatherine LaPenta Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown UniversityAnton Manyak Virginia Mason Medical CenterStephen Maurer University of Michigan Hospsital —

Ann ArborAstia Roper-Batker Hospital of the University of

PennsylvaniaEric Schmidt Oregon Health & Science UniversityYueyue Shen Hofstra Northwell School of MedicineSamantha Siskind Boston University Medical CenterAsaad Traina UCLA Medical CenterLisa Wang Kaiser Permanente — Santa ClaraTyler Wark Rhode Island Hosp/Brown UniversityTaylor Wolfgang Tufts Medical Center

N E U R O L O G I C A L S U R G E R Y

David Arsanious West Virginia University School of MedicineTaylor Sommer University of Illinois — St Francis Medical Center

N E U R O L O G Y

Jacob Korzun Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown University

O B S T E T R I C S - G Y N E C O L O G Y

Stephanie Brooks Case Western/ Cleveland Medical CenterElisabeth Day UC San Francisco — FresnoLindsey Eastman University of Chicago Medical CenterAndre Robinson Icahn School of Medicine — St. Luke’s-Roosevelt

O P T H A L M O L O G Y

Julia Shatten University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

O R T H O P A E D I C S U R G E R Y

Ethan Harlow Case Western/ Cleveland Medical CenterAllicia Imada University of New Mexico School of Medicine

P A T H O L O G Y

Liam Donnelly UVM Medical CenterNicole Mendelson UVM Medical CenterRebekah Wieland Stanford University Programs

P E D I A T R I C S

Andrea Blood UVM Medical CenterShannon Brady University of Utah Affilliated HospitalsKathryn Colelli N.Y. Presbyterian/ Columbia University Medical CenterPeter Evans Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaRahul Gentyala Duke University Medical CenterCatherine Hayes University of North Carolina HospitalsColby Kearl Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical CenterMary LoPiccolo Icahn School of Medicine — Mt. SinaiMolly Markowitz Yale-New Haven HospitalGayathri Prabhakar Children’s Hospital of PhiladelphiaDana Ribaudo Wake Forest Baptist Medical CenterKelsey Sullivan UVM Medical CenterDaniel Trigg Maine Medical CenterElaine Wang University of Connecticut School of Medicine

P E D S / P S Y C H / C H I L D P S Y C H

Vicenta Hudziak Rhode Island Hospital/ Brown University

P R E L I M I N A R Y S U R G E R Y

Samy Ramadan David Grant Medical Center — Travis Air force Base, Calif.

P S Y C H I A T R Y

Moshe Bitterman Northwestern McGawTheresa Flanagan University of Wisconsin Hospital and ClinicsDerek Luzim University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolJennifer Tufts Boston University Medical Center

T R A N S I T I O N A L Y E A R

Joshua Pothen University of Central Florida School of Medicine

U R O L O G Y

Theodore Cisu Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Laura Donnelly Albany Medical CenterKathleen Olson Mayo Clinic School of Graduate

Medical Education

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